Month: November 2018

If you’ve been following me for a while, or know me in real life, you’d know that my excitement for Steve McQueen’s new film Widows has been building for approximately a year now. I even featured it in my Films To Look Forward To: Volume 1 way back in April, and finally, I got to see it last night. Based…

In it’s third year, Birmingham Film Festival (20th-25th November) has relocated to Millennium Point and is bigger than ever! With over 50 films screening over the five days ranging from clay-mation to documentaries and full length feature films, there is plenty of variety and talent to keep an eye out for. My first visit to…

When the reviews for this film started to come out, full of praise and admiration for yet another imaginative retelling of the story of success and failure in the music industry, I have to admit I was sceptical. It didn’t seem like the type of film I’d enjoy. I am pleased to admit that I…

A young woman runs across an empty, snow-covered tract of land, the moon shining cold and unforgiving above her. She stumbles, coughing blood into the pure white ground beneath her. A title card states that this film is inspired by true events before fading to black. So begins Taylor Sheridan’s neo-Western thriller Wind River. Following the discovery…

Netflix’s slew of original films over the past few years have been on the whole, well received – unless you’re part of the Cannes Film Festival administration of course – but until recently they hadn’t produced a musical. Enter Been So Long, a joyful, complex and colourful exploration of love and life in London in 2018, based…